No midnight launch for iPhone 7 in India, new iPhones will go on sale Friday evening

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be available for buying in India starting from October 7. Unlike in the West where Apple's new batch of iPhones enjoyed a midnight launch, India will have to wait a bit longer to buy the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The new iPhones will be available for buying, in India, starting from Friday 7PM IST.

India Today Tech has cross checked with a number of retailers in the national capital, and each one has confirmed to us that the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus will be available for purchasing from Friday 7PM. Note that, the new iPhones have been up for pre-order online via select retailers and e-retailers like Flipkart for some time now. Those who have pre-booked the phones will of course receive the same as scheduled. But, those vying for a personal visit to the store and checking the new iPhones out first-hand before buying will have to wait until the said time frame.

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are officially available in the colours: Jet Black, Black (matte), Rose Gold and Silver. That being said, it would be extremely hard to get your hands on the glossy Jet Black version, at least in India, for some time. All the retailers that we checked with confirmed to us, that there will be no Jet Black iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus available for sale, at least, to begin with.

The iPhone 7 starts at Rs 60,000 for the base 32GB variant and goes all the way up to Rs 92,000 for the top-end 256GB version of the iPhone 7 Plus.

Follow-ups to last year's iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus -- as largely expected - don't reinvent the wheel, and rather sum up as mere incremental upgrades to their predecessor phones. That being said, the new increments brought in, all work towards refining a product that is already considered by many as one of the best that there is in the market. The iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus broadly focus on durability, photography and audio aspects.

They are water and dust resistant (not water-proof), have dual camera setup (iPhone 7 Plus), a new quad-core A10 Fusion chipset, stereo speakers and no headphone jack.